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THE MUSIC TRADE REVIEW.
Wednesday, Fob. 18, German-American Day.—
Large delegations will be expected from the German
Societies of Cincinnati, St. Louis, Chicago, New York,
and other parts of the United States. Hon. Carl
Shurz will be invited to deliver an address on the
subject [of what Germans have contributed to the
settlement and development of different American
countries.
Monday, Feb. 22, Washington's Birthday.—Suitable
ceremonies will be provided and an address deliver-
ed.
Tuesday, Feb. 23, Italian-American Day.—Delega-
tions will be expected from the Italian Clubs and
Societies of the United States, and other American
countries, particularly the Argentine Republic, where
the Italians have played a prominent part in material
development. Suitable ceremonies will be provided
and an address delivered.
Wednesday, Feb. 24, Spanish-American Day.—
Delegations will be expected from the various Span-
ish-American countries, and from the Spanish and
Spanish-American Clubs of the United States. Hon.
Matias Romero, the Mexican minister, will be invited
to deliver an addresson the subject of what Spaniards
have contributed toward the discovery and settle-
ment of the various American countries.
Thursday, Feb. 25, Columbus Day.— Suitable cere-
monies will be provided, and an address delivered.
Monday, March 1, French-American Day.—All
French Societies of Louisiana, Missouri, New York,
and other parts of the United States, and of Canada,
and Central and South America, will be invited. An
address will be delivered on the subject of what
Frenchmen have contributed toward the settlement
and development of America.
Wednesday, March 3, Portuguese-American Day.—
This will be in honor of Brazil, and all interested in
more intimate steamship communciation, and com-
mercial relations with that country will be invited.
An address will be delivered on the subject of what
the Portuguese have contributed toward the dis-
covery and settlement of America.
Thursday, March 4, American Firemen's Day.—
Delegations will be invited from all Fire Companies
in the United States, and suitable ceremonies provid-
ed.
Tuesday, March 9, Mardi-Gras.—No pains will be
spread to make the festivities of this popular cele-
bration the most brilliant ever known in the annals
of Louisiana.
Monday, March 15, American La-
bor Day.—All labor organizations
in the United States will be invited.
Suitable ceremonies will be pro-
vided.
Wednesday, March 17, Irish American Day.—All
Irish Societies and Clubs of the United States and
Central and South America, will be invited to send
full delegations.
U. S. Senator Jones, of Florida, will be invited to
deliver an address on the subject of what the Irish
have contributed to the settlement and development
of the various American countries.
Wednesday, March 2-t, Hebrew-American Day.—All
Hebrew Societies and Clubs of the United States and
Central and South America, will be invited to send
delegations. An address will be delivered on what
the Hebrews have contributed toward the develop-
ment, commerce and banking, of the various Ameri-
can countries.
Monday, March 29, American Veterans' Day.—
This is intended to be a grand re-union of Union and
Confederate Veterans and a further tribute to "Peace
and Good Will." Suitable ceremonies will be provided.
Wednesday, March 31, Closing Ceremonies.—Suita-
ble ceremonies will bo provided, and a valedictory
address delivered by the Presidentof the Exposition.
JNO. W. GLENN, Director-General.
APPKOVED:
8. B. MCCONNICO, President.
NOTE -Other special days, embracing such special-
ties as may be deemed desirable will be announced
later. For further information, address :
ALEX. D. ANDERSON,
Commissioner for Special Days, Willard's Hotel,
Washington, D. C.
BEHR BBOS & Co., New York, are busy as usual.
Their trade has been remarkably good all through
the dull season, and they are now making prepara-
tions for the busiest fall and winter trade since they
commenced business.
THE AMMONIAPHONE.
AN INVENTION FOR PRODUCING ARTI-
FICIAL ITALIAN AIR.
T TALY has long been famed as the birthplace of
our most noted and sweetest singers. Tte Italian
Peninsular contains a soft balmy air, which
seems to exert a most beneficial effect upon the throat
and lungs, thus making it a paradise for the invalid,
besides the advantages it possesses for the voice.
Dr. Carter Moffat, for nearly thirty years past has
been experimenting with all kinds of chemical mate-
rials, with the intention of improving the voice. When
merely a child, Dr. Moffat became convinced that the
beautiful Italian tone, and Italy as a resort for in-
valids, was due largely to the peculiar air of that
country. He became Assistant and afterwards Prin-
cipal Demonstrator to the Royal College of Surgeons,
of Edinburgh, and while there, for over seven years,
carried on his experimenting. He inhaled hun-
dreds of gases, partaking of chemicals, solids and
fluids and exercising his voice, which at that time
was a very weak one, of poor quality, and almost
destitute of intonation. Leaving Edinburgh he was
elected a professor of Chemistry in Glasgow, and for
more than ten years carried on his researches in that
city on the vocal chords, to induce an improvement
in the tone. Consequently by this enormous amount
of experimenting he gained much valuable informa-
tion. About ten years ago a London Company re-
quested him to go to Southern Italy to continue cer-
tain technological operations, and through the solv-
ing of which he received from the Italian Govern-
ment a Diploma of Honor and a Gold Medal.
During his stay there he made over seventy analy-
sis of the air and dew of the plains and valleys of
Southern Italy, and his quick, observant eye early
pointed out to him chemical compounds, never be-
fore found by philosophers, to be contained in the
air of Italy. Returning to Glasgow, he renewed his
experiments with such success, that he soon resigned
his very remunerative position and fitted up excel-
lent laboratories on his farm of Silverburn, Newart-
hill, Lanarkshire, and there constructed, after several
years of profound study, the Ammoniaphone, which
is now being used with benificial results by many of
our greatest singers.
that the Ammoniaphone is an excellent tiling, and
will have a very large sale in this country when thor-
oughly introduced. We think that the dealers in the
trade will find it to their advantage to cor respond
with the Company and receive fuller particulars and
trade prices.
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THE AMMONIAPHONE.
The Ammoniaphone is a tube twenty-five inches
long, constructed of a specially prepared non corro-
sive metal with handles having patent spring valves.
It is charged with a chemical compound, which, upon
Inhalation through a mouth-piece in the center of the
Instrument, produces the similar effect to that of the
soft balmy air of Italy. Over fifty thousand Ammo-
niaphones have been sold in England during the past
year, and the company who control the sale of this
instrument have in their possession five thousand
testimonials, from musicians, artists, teachers, med-
ical and scientific men, all of whom speak in the most
glowing terms of the wonderful effect upon the voice
and bronchial system. Also of its power in relieving
and curing consumption, bronchitis, aphonia, asthma,
colds, coughs, sore throat, hay fever, deafness and
sleeplessness.
The Ammoniaphone Company, 226 Fifth Avenue,
New York, of whom Mr. E. de Vermont is manager,
are the sole licensees for the United States and Can-
ada. The instrument itself is said to last a lifetime,
but, of course, has to be recharged from time to time
according to the amount of use.
The Company specially guarantee that the chem-
icals used in the charging are perfectly harmless and
the most delicate and sensitively organized may
inhale with confidence.
The cost of the Ammoniaphone varies in proportion
to the concentration and amount of the chemicals
employed. There are four sizes made, and there is
one charged with a spinal anti-septoid compound,
which is said will instantly stop bleeding of the lungs.
The prices of the four different styles range from
$8.00 to $20.00, and the recharging from $2.00 to $5.00.
The Ammoniaphone Company will soon Introduce
this instrument to the public on a larger scale than
ever before, and propose to establish agencies among
the music trade in every prominent town. We believe
JOHN C. FREUND'S DEBUT.
NOTHER of those episodes occurred at the
Third Avenue Theatre yesterday which have
made the New York stage famous for giving
all sorts of odd people a chance. A good many years
ago a well known bookseller attempted Richelieu at
an uptown theatre, and portrayed the part for the
benefit of "the trade." Like many another good fel-
low he was not an actor. Then came a noted lawyer
and ex-Mayor, but he too proved that he was not
born for the stage. Then a theatrical press agent
undertook to act for his own benefit instead of talk-
ing the newspaper men of the country to death for
the benefit of others. Finally a newspaper publisher
turns actor. Mr. J. C. Freund has succeeded F. F.
Mackay as Fabian in " Nordeek." Fabian is a com-
edy role, but the new actor gives us Comedy between
Freund and Tragedy. Anything more lugubrious
cannot be imagined. Mr. Freund's self-possession
is marvelous, but his lugubrity is appalling. He is
not awkward, as most stage novices are, and yet he
is as lifeless as a wooden image. Playing comedy, he
is so very serious that he even takes the comedy out
of Mr. Taylor's noisy Witold, and the audience would
consider it a crime to laugh while he is on the stage.
His conception of the part is that it is a fit Of inter-
mittent melancholia. At last we have found an actor
who can make a funny part too serious for anything.
The actors who can make serious parts funny may
now hide their diminished heads—The Daily Tele-
graph. Oct. 11th,
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AN IMPORTANT ARTISTIC INVENTION.
MONG the most striking novelties at the Nov-
elties Exhibition is tho new Hardman Upright
Piano, with the new Patent Harp Stop. This
invention doubles the already exceptional durability
and power of standing in tune of instrument, and
adds another to the many original improvements
and excellencies that have so rapidly given the Hard-
man Upright its great prestige. It is now the ac-
knowledged leader in all points of greatest excel-
lence, and is sold at a price which has destroyed the
former fashionable prejudice in favor of paying for a
piano double its intrinsic value. Messrs. William D.
Dutton & Co., 1115 Chestnut street, Depot for Eastern
Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Delaware.
We clipped the above from the editorial column of
a prominent Philadelphia daily paper, which shows
what is thought of the Hardman piano in Philadel-
phia. When Messrs. Dutton & Sons, a short time
ago, placed the Hardman piano as their leader, it was
comparatively unknown in their territory, now,
through their efforts, combined with the many excel-
lent qualities contained in the instrument, it ranks
among the first.
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THE NEW MERCHANDISE CATALOGUE OF
W. J. DYER & BRO.
W
E have just received the eighth edition mer-
chandise catalogue of Wm. J. Dyer & Bro.,
St. Paul and Minneapolis, Minn. It is en-
tirely new and original in arrangement and will prove
a valuable book of reference to tho music trade. The
following is the assurances this firm give the trade:
Prices to the Trade (at this date) areas low as con-
sistent with the fine quality of our goods. There is,
however, as is well known among the trade, more or
less fluctuation in the cost of imported musical mer-
chandise. We ask our customers to bear this fact
in mind, and if a lower quotation than our prices
should be made, to remember, that we stand ready
to protect and do as well for them as any house in
the country. With our important European connec-
tion by which we are enabled to bring merchandise
direct from the manufacturers, through the St. Paul
Custom House, to our own doors, we confidently
assert that no other firm can offer superior induce-
ments, or can surpass us In our efforts to meet the
wishes of the trade.
F. WAGNER, Wilmington, Del., states that he con-
siders the Briggs stool one of the best in the market
for the price asked.